A History of Australia: New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 1822-1838

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Page 16654 When Robinson died in 1827 the native-born and emancipists mourned him
as the first poet laureate in the colony, and indeed as the only man whose
productions had any pretensions even to the grade of mediocrity. Some said he
would ...

Page 198Francis Stephen then moved the petition to the King, taking the opportunity to ask
the meeting whether the assertion by Howick that party animosity existed in the
colony between immigrants and emancipists were not false. They shouted their ...

Page 337That concern with what was in man never was his subject. What touched him
deeply was the behaviour, and demands of the emancipists. For a brief moment
before the committee he let fly, gave out his own cry of pain, and spoke with
disgust, ...